Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications

This is a very good technical book on electric machines and drives, probably one of the best I've ever read. It's truly written in a manner that's not heavily mathematical, but without losing any technical soundness or being anecdotal. Instead, the author expertly explains the consequence equations have on the practical design of electric machines and drives, the reasons for the design techniques of today's electric machines and drives, and how to analyze and make assessments for the selection of electric machines and drives. This new update includes a new chapter for field-oriented control used in VFD's. I think it's a worthwhile update to the 3rd edition, but the author sacrifices end of chapter problems for the addition of that chapter. Now, this book has no problems that one can practice, a very unfortunate thing! I don't know why he did it, if but he felt that the publishing costs would be too high with having to print too many extra pages or if he didn't want to develop new problems for the new VFD chapter. I would encourage him at least to bring back the problems for the other chapters in a reprint of this edition! However, the overall book is still excellent and the additional chapter is definitely a must for anyone wanting to understand fully how VFD's work. Overall, I highly recommend this book for an engineer, technician, or student.

I'm a mechanical engineer without a lot of knowledge of electric motor design, although I have used them on various projects. That said, this book, with the aid of clear diagrams and text, is doing an excellent job of showing me the basics of electric motors from the root of the theory. Although I haven't finished this book yet, I have thumbed through the remainder and the content does not drop off. One of the highlights was a basic explanation of a thyristor, which I know now to be a relatively simple circuit element, but wasn't explained well enough in my past to realize what it did and why it was used. This was covered in the chapter that introduces basic control circuits. Readers will need to have some basis circuit and physical understanding to enable a less challenging read. I wish I had discovered this book earlier as it would have made certain tasks a lot simpler in my professional past. I hadn't found another book that so clearly explained electric motors.

A classic book for understanding motors and drive circuitry. An easy read and extremely well written. Gets the points across without getting too bogged down in the equations. The math presented is necessary to get the points across to the reader (its just basic algebra). This is a must read for motor and drive related design activities and for application. Well done.

This book is informative and good. But if author started with the overall introduction blocks/charts first, then deep down for each, then reader would not feel lost or overwhelm. Hope next edition will be written in a fashion that is good for all experience-level readers! Thanks!

Very nicely written book, explains the motor theory in simple understandable words. Recommended for people with basic understanding of electric and magnetic circuits.

As an electric vehicle enthusiast I turned to this book to learn about motors in an intuitive way that also includes some maths and physics to back up the intuition. This book was exactly what i was looking for! Highly recommended because it talks about motors from a historical, cost, electromagnetic and mathematical perspective, the book itself is extremely well engineered.

I had the great pleasure to have been one of Dr. Hughes' students many moons ago. His latest book is a joy to read, and clarifies many complex topics in motor theory, whilst not being too mathematical. Highly recommended. A classic text book on motor theory

Most of the book is is in simple language but the complex stuff is difficult to get your round. Even if you don't understand it all, you learn a huge amount. It is strong on making motors more efficient and on various motor control types. For me the most powerful aspect was learning which motor types best suits various applications (and it isn't always the motors most generally used)

I personally struggled to get the concept from different books. But this was very friendly and the author explained the concepts without much maths. I love this book.

Non lascio molte recensioni su Amazon, ma "quanno ce vò ce vò". Questo libro è un must assoluto per chi si occupa di azionamenti elettrici. Scarno sul fronte delle equazioni (ma non è questo il suo obiettivo, di libri validi dal punto di vista matematico se ne trovano) gli autori si dimostrano degli eccezionali divulgatori, e senza mai perdere di rigore riescono davvero a farci visualizzare cosa succede dentro la macchina, e con quali problemi si scontrano i progettisti del mondo reale. Ritornare ai normali testi matematici permetterà poi di ottenere una comprensione ancora più profonda di quelle equazioni e di cosa comportano.

Es tracta d’un llibre molt bo. Segons la meva opinió està adreçat als enginyers que fan servir els motors elèctrics i tenen coneixements d’electricitat però no coneixements matemàtics d’alt nivell, per tant dona un coneixement de les possibilitats d’escollir un tipus de motor i variador de velocitat depenent de les circumstàncies.

As a mechatronics masters student, I found this book to be extremely useful and very well written. The book starts off with basic concepts and then moves towards controlling DC, Induction and Synchronous motors. I found this book to be a perfect supplement to the lectures I am attending and I recommend this book to any student who is studying electric motors and the basics of how to control them.

I got this for a bit of quick familiarisation with the subject when starting work on a project to develop a new safety controller for use with modern industrial drives. As a software engineer I found it very readable and it helped me a great deal in understanding the essentials of electric motor control.